On
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, America honors its war dead. It was
first officially proclaimed, on May 5, 1868, by General John Logan, national
commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was declared a national
holiday by Act of the U.S. Congress, in 1971 (www.usmemorialday.org).

Since then, those in the
military who have given their lives in the defense of our nation are
recalled by Americans in solemn cemetery ceremonies: they place flowers and
flags on veterans’ graves, visit national monuments, enjoy patriotic parades
and listen to speeches throughout the land.

Sadly, this year we have
added new names to that Memorial Day list. As of May 30, 2004, 810 of
America’s finest sons and daughters have perished in the Iraqi War quagmire
(www.lunaville.org).
We have also wasted $115.5 billions of our tax dollars on this unjust
conflict (www.costofwar.com).
The number of innocent Iraqi civilians who have been killed by Coalition
Forces as the result of the immoral invasion and occupation of that
unfortunate country is now put conservatively at 11,046 (www.iraqbodycount.net).

Suggestion: Why not have a
day, set aside once a year, for Americans to roast the repulsive Warmongers
who have instigated this mess in Iraq? Isn’t it time to mock some of these
villains? Don’t they deserve to be pilloried with a national day of their
own?

The Warmongers are the
conniving characters who got the U.S. into the Iraq War, despite its having
little or nothing to do with our genuine national interest. They are also
the globalist-oriented intriguers who represent special and powerful
interests that have had such a harmful influence, since the administration
of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61), over the public life of our nation. They
are the cunning wheeler-dealers -- the political insiders -- the fat cat
lobbyists -- who call the shots on Capitol Hill. They are collectively the
WIRE PULLERS! They act ABOVE the Republic! (Check out Chalmers Johnson’s
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic,
for a more detailed background on these grasping special interests, along
with a keen analysis of their M.O., which has compelled the U.S. into
building, at enormous cost, 725 military bases around the world.) Johnson is
convinced, as I am, that our mindless, reckless Empire-building will lead us
down the path of self-destruction, as it once did for imperial Greece, Rome
and the predatory, Irish-hating Brits before us.

Some of the Warmongers are
key operatives within the “Military-Industrial Complex”; others are front
men for “Big Oil”; some are principals of the influential “Israel First
Brigade,” and also greedy bankers and CEOs of multinational corporations. A
few are just motor-mouthed talking heads, like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh,
Bill O’Reilly and that disgusting Ann Coulter. The latter right-wing crew
has made plenty of money with their books, radio and tv shows, fanning the
flames for the Iraq war, and for perpetual war too, while our our national
treasury sucks up the red ink.

I propose that Halloween,
Oct. 31st, serve jointly as Warmongers’ Day. Images of the entire
Bush-Cheney Gang should be brought forth on that occasion. It is time for
the nation to pay them back, and also their chief collaborators,
symbolically at least, for their revolting hawkish schemes. So, let Oct. 31,
2004, be declared as the first “Warmongers’ Day.” Bring on the icons of the
War Hawks for a good bashing. The nation needs some therapeutic relief from
their evil doings!

On that date, let us
particularly remember the Neocons Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, William
Kristol, Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Douglas J. Feith, who so vigorously
stampeded the U.S. into invading Iraq. And, don’t forget the important roles
in this shameful enterprise played by the Congressional war hawks, too,
like: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT) and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA). Media
moguls, such as Mortimer B. Zuckerman and Rupert Murdoch, also deserve to be
lampooned. Naturally, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Elliott
Abrams and Dick Cheney are essential to this kind of event, as is, of
course, that amiable dunce, one George W. Bush, Jr.

The Warmongers falsely
promised or hyped, in one way or another, that the Iraq War would only be “a
cakewalk” for the U.S., and that we would find WMDs in Iraq, and also plenty
of evidence that Saddam Hussein had ties to the Al-Qaeda network. They
insisted our national security was at risk. They lied to us! They
deliberately deceived the American people in every way they could. They
deserve our censure -- our condemnation -- our wrath! They have also made
the U.S. more enemies in the Islamic World.

It is only fair that the
“Poster Boy” for the initial Warmongers’ Day be Perle, “The Mother of All
Neocons.” He helped to draft, with other Neocons, that notorious “Clean
Break” policy statement for Zionist Israel back in the late-90s. (See, for
more information, “Clean Break or Dirty War?: Israel’s Foreign Policy
Directive to the U.S.,” 03/27/03, and related material found at:
www.irmep.org) The “Clean
Break” document ended up being the intellectual blueprint for the U.S.
invasion of Iraq.

I suggest that someone take
Perle’s photo now for that poster, since he has a tendency to run off to his
luxurious villa in the south of France whenever the number of the U.S. war
dead rises. Lately, that has been almost every day, (Robert Burns,
“April-May Iraq GI Death Toll Tops 200,” AP Military Writer, 05/30/04).

Anyway, what good would it
be to celebrate Warmongers’ Day, if there wasn’t a gigantic picture of
Richard Perle, that scheming son of Beelzebub himself, to jeer at?